[yt-dev] proposing a yt-3.2 release

[Britton Smith]

This does not explicitly include the VR refactor, unless it happened to be
approved in the very near future.  Assuming the remaining issues with the
docs build were dealt with, it would be exactly what's in dev at this
moment.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Michael Zingale <
michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:

> does this include the new VR interface?  I'm +1 if it is the old interface
> for 3.2.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Nathan and I just met briefly to discuss backporting all bugfix PRs from
>> the development branch to stable so as to do a minor release.  This has
>> become absolutely necessary as a large number of bugs have appeared and
>> been fixed since the last release, which was nearly 6 months ago.  By my
>> rough estimate, there have been about 200 PRs accepted since the last
>> release, with a large fraction of them being bug fixes.  Therefore, it
>> seemed to both Nathan and I that there were simply too many changesets that
>> need to be picked out of dev and transplanted to stable for such an
>> operation to be feasible.
>>
>> Instead, a far simpler solution is to bite the bullet and do a 3.2
>> release with everything currently in dev.  Fortunately, as we require
>> passing tests and documentation of new features, this would require
>> relatively little effort.  Most of the work is cleaning up errors in the
>> docs build, for which Nathan is filing tickets as I write this.
>>
>> I want to be clear that we desperately need a new release with the number
>> of bugs that have been fixed since the last one.  If we do not do this,
>> then someone else needs to step up and backport all those bugfixes to
>> stable.
>>
>> For now, can I please get a +-1 on whether you agree with this proposal.
>> If this meets with approval, then I will coordinate taking the next steps.
>>
>> Britton
>>
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